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Albert Einstein categorically rejected authoritarianism and militarism.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was born at Ulm, but grew up in Munich and later in Italy and Switzerland, where he attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher of physics and mathematics. After his graduation, in 1901, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office and obtained his doctoral degree in 1905.
During his stay at the Patent Office, and in his spare time, he produced much of his remarkable work and in 1908 he was appointed Privatdozent (adjunct professor) in Berne. He was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, in 1911, returning to Zurich in the following year to fill a similar post. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute and Professor in the University of Berlin. He became a German citizen in 1914 and remained in Berlin until 1933 when he renounced his citizenship for political reasons and emigrated to America to take the position of Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton. He became a United States citizen in 1940 and retired from his post in 1945.
After World War II, Einstein was a leading figure in the World Government Movement, he was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel, which he declined, and he collaborated with Dr. Chaim Weizmann in establishing the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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